![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His explorers often died of sickness or at the hands of unfriendly natives, and they struggled under minuscule budgets that forced them to resort to pulling enormous ships across floating ice fields to eating mice, raw meat, or their own shoes and even to horrifying acts of cannibalism. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite naval officers scoured the globe on a mission to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day.įrom the first disastrous trip down the Congo, in search of the Niger River, Barrow maintained his resolve in the face of continuous catastrophes. These men served under John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, who, after the Napoleonic wars, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. Re-creating the successes and harrowing failures of the original extreme adventurers, Fergus Fleming captures the incredibly brave, and often downright insane, passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble even the bravest adventurers today. Here is all the adventure you could want, stirringly and generously told.” –Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventureīarrow’s Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. “Surely this spring’s most entertaining popular history. ![]()
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